Mr.Yan Carriere-Swallow

Mr.Vikram Haksar

This SPR Departmental Paper will provide policymakers with a framework for studying changes to national data policy frameworks.

An Integrated Perspective

The Economics and Implications of Data

Mr.Pablo Garcia-Silva

This paper recounts Chile’s experience with capital account policies since the 1990s. We present how two external shocks were confronted under very different macroeconomic and capital account frameworks. We show that during the 1997-98 Asian-LTCM-Russia crisis, a closed capital account and relatively rigid exchange rate severely constrained the monetary policy response to the shock, aggravating the fall in domestic demand. During the 2008-09 crisis, a full-fledged inflation targeting framework allowed the authorities to implement a significant countercyclical response. We argue that domestic stability considerations lay behind the policy regime switch toward capital account liberalization from 1999 onwards.

Mr.Yan Carriere-Swallow

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